Seminars
Biological Physics: Seminars
Monday 11:00 - 12:00, Seminar Room 1D1 (if not given otherwise in the table)
| Mo, 08.01.24 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Journal Scan | Screening of recently published articles |
| Wed, 10.01.24 14:00 - 15:00 SR1D1 | Extra Seminar Talk Maria-José Franco-Oñate MPI-PKS | Signature of cooperativity in the stochastic fluctuations of small systems: application to the bacterial flagellar motor |
| Mo, 15.01.24 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks 1. Daniel Busiello, MPI-PKS 2. Christian Hanauer, MPI-PKS | 1. Information propagation in multi-layer multi-scale systems 2. Morphogen-Controlled Growth and Scaling of the Planarian Gut |
| Wed, 17.01.24 14:00 - 15:00 SR1D1 | Extra Seminar Talk Rakesh Das MPI-PKS | Chromatic medium under active perturbation |
| Thurs, 18.01.24 15:00 - 16:00 SR1D1 | External Seminar Talk Mattia Scandolo Sapienza University of Rome | Renormalization group approach to biological systems: the case of natural swarms of insects |
| Mo, 22.01.24 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks | 1. Towards a metabolic engine in a droplet 2. Compartmentalisation in Xenopus Cell Extract |
| Wed, 24.01.24 14:00 - 15:00 SR1 | External Seminar Talk Jens-Uwe Sommer Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden (IPF) | How polymers control and localize liquid-liquid phase separation |
| Mo, 29.01.24 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks 1. Pallabi Das, MPI-PKS 2. Tarun Mascarenhas, MPI-PKS | 1. Interplay of swimming and flow in porous media 2. Specificity in Chemically Active Droplets |
| Wed, 31.01.24 14:00 - 15:00 SR1D1 | External Seminar Talk Kinneret Keren Technion - Israel Institute of Technology | Dynamics of contracting actomyosin networks with turnover |
| Thurs, 01.02.24 15:00 - 16:00 SR1D1 | External Seminar Talk Daniel Seara University of Chicago | Sociohydrodynamics: data-driven modeling of social behavior |
| Mo, 05.02.24 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks 1. Christina Kurzthaler, MPI-PKS 2. Sagnik Garai, MPI-PKS | 1. Entangled active matter 2. Microswimmer near a deformable membrane |
| Mo, 12.02.24 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks 1. Amit Kumar Singh, MPI-PKS 2. Suchismita Das, MPI-PKS | 1. Electro-hydraulics of electrically polarized spherical organoids 2. Flocking by turning away |
| Wed, 14.02.24 14:00 - 15:00 SR4 | External Seminar Talk Stefan Diez TU Dresden | Emergence of directional reversals and torsional forces in cytoskeletal motor systems |
| Mo, 19.02.24 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks 1. Ricard Alert, MPI-PKS 2. Christoph Zechner, MPI-CBG | 1. Capillary forces in hydrated active matter 2. Concentration fluctuations in non-equilibrium, multicomponent condensates |
| Wed, 21.02.24 14:00 - 15:00 SR4 | External Seminar Talk Benjamin Friedrich TU Dresden | Mechanism of branching morphogenesis inspired by diatom silica formation |
| Mo, 26.02.24 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks 1. Kartik Chhajed, MPI-PKS 2. Carl Modes, MPI-CBG | 1. Cell size heterogeneity controls crystallisation in fruit fly wing 2. Ensnarled Networks |
| Mo, 04.03.24 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Journal Scan | Screening of recently published articles |
| Wed, 06.03.24 14:00 - 15:00 SR4 | External Seminar Talk Silke Henkes Leiden University | Tissue models with active feedback |
| Mo, 11.03.24 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | No Group Seminar | Suzanne Eaton Memorial Lecture at MPI-CBG |
| Mo, 18.03.24 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | No Group Seminar | 2024 DPG Spring Meeting, Berlin |
| Mo, 25.03.24 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks 1. Jack Treado, MPI-PKS 2. Boyi Wang, MPI-PKS | 1. Modeling intercellular fluid flow and complex surface interactions in multicellular tissues 2. A minimal way to construct chiral activity by lattice model |
| Mo, 01.04.24 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Easter Monday | Public Holiday |
| Mo, 08.04.24 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Journal Scan | Screening of recently published articles |
| Mo, 15.04.24 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks 1. Ivan Di Terlizzi, MPI-PKS 2. Philipp Suhrcke, MPI-CBG | 1. Memory may hide dissipation in active baths 2. Finding topological characteristics of the retinal epithelium to distinguish disease phenotypes |
| Mo, 22.04.24 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks 1. Hanno Hennighausen, MPI-PKS 2. Maryam Setoudeh, MPI-PKS | 1. Can a Stiffness Gradient of a Cluster of Cells Drive Collective Motion? 2. Germband extension variability in Drosophila |
| Mo, 29.04.24 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks 1. Lars Hubatsch, MPI-CBG 2. Matteo Ciarchi, MPI-PKS | 1. Interface Resistance Part II: Experiments 2. Mechanisms of timing in genetic priming during development |
| Mo, 06.05.24 11:00 - 12:00 SR1 | Journal Scan | Screening of recently published articles |
| Wed, 08.05.24 14:00 - 15:00 SR4 | External Seminar Talk Philip Bittihn Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen | Emergent dynamics in proliferating cellular matter |
| Mo, 13.05.24 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks 1. Peter Hampshire, MPI-PKS 2. Shiheng Zhao, MPI-PKS | 1. Active nematic turbulence on a substrate 2. Poking a very soft elastic shell |
| Mo, 13.05.24 13:30 - 14:30 SR4 | External Seminar Talks 1. Varsha Rajshekar, UC Berkeley 2. Lucy Brennan, UC Berkeley | 1. Affinity hierarchies and amphiphilic proteins in the co-assembly of the nucleolus and heterochromatin 2. Spontaneous heterochromatin compartmentalization in a minimal in vitro system |
| Mo, 20.05.24 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Whit Monday | Public Holiday |
| Wed, 22.05.24 14:00 - 15:00 SR4 | Extra Seminar Talk Sifan Yin MPI-PKS | Chemomechanical theory of active solids |
| Mo, 27.05.24 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks 1. Pierre Haas, CSBD/MPI-PKS 2. Yanis Baouche, MPI-PKS | 1. Buckling 2. First-passage time of a low-activity Brownian particle |
| Wed, 29.05.24 14:00 - 15:00 SR4 | External Seminar Talk Arash Nikoubashman Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden | Plastic life: What polymer physics can teach us about disordered proteins |
| Thurs, 30.05.24 14:00 - 15:00 SR1D1 | External Seminar Talk Thomas Franosch University of Innsbruck | Resonant diffusion of a gravitactic circle swimmer |
| Mo, 03.06.24 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Journal Scan | Screening of recently published articles |
| Wed, 05.06.24 14:00 - 15:00 SR4 | External Seminar Talk Suropriya Saha Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen | The role of pressure, fluctuations, and nonlinearities in the Non-Reciprocal Cahn-Hilliard model |
| Mo, 10.06.24 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks 1. Patrick McCall, MPI-CBG 2. Marko Popovic, MPI-PKS | 1. Modulating condensate properties and catalytic activity with peptide sequence in coacervate dispersions 2. Mechanics of cell area in growing epithelia |
| Mo, 10.06.24 14:00 - 15:00 SR4 | External Seminar Talk Dibyendu Das IIT Bombay | Exact first passage time distribution for threshold crossing of protein quantity, and fluctuations of cell lysis timings |
| Wed, 12.06.24 14:00 - 15:00 SR4 | External Seminar Talk Shervin Safavi Faculty of Medicine, TU Dresden | Signatures of criticality in efficient coding networks |
| Mo, 17.06.24 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks 1. Chandraniva Guha Ray, CSBD 2. Simon Grosse-Holz, CSBD | 1. Continuum mechanics of epithelial (un)buckling 2. Deciphering chromatin interactions |
| Wed, 19.06.24 14:00 - 15:00 SR4 | External Seminar Talk Amitabha Nandi IIT Bombay | Active and passive transport inside cells |
| Mo, 24.06.24 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks 1. Ryota Takaki, MPI-PKS 2. Lara Koehler, MPI-PKS | 1. Sequence Complexity and Monomer Rigidity Control the Morphologies and Aging Dynamics of Protein Aggregates 2. Renormalization of anisotropic particles self-assembly models |
| Mo, 01.07.24 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Journal Scan | Screening of recently published articles |
| Wed, 03.07.24 14:00 - 15:00 SR4 | External Seminar Talk Robert Großmann University of Potsdam | Intermittent active diffusion processes: From bacteria in gels to bio-hybrid microtransport |
| Mo, 08.07.24 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks 1. Ali Tahaei, MPI-PKS 2. Yahor Savich, MPI-PKS | 1. Cell extrusions and pressure fluctuations in models of epithelial tissues 2. Mechanics at the Nuclear Periphery: Co-Condensation of DNA, Baf, and Lem2 |
| Mo, 15.07.24 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks 1. Ursy Makanga, MPI-PKS 2. Max Ferrin, MPI-PKS | 1. Simulating the dynamics of chemically active filaments 2. Mechanical regulation of endocytosis by protein droplet interfacial forces |
| Mo, 22.07.24 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks 1. Davide Revignas, MPI-PKS 2. Suganthan Senthilkumar, MPI-PKS | 1. LLPS in a coarse grained model of proteins in explicit water 2. Confinement modulates axial patterning in regenerating Hydra |
| 29.07.24 - 23.08.24 | SUMMER BREAK | |
| Mo, 26.08.24 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Journal Scan | Screening of recently published articles |
| Mo, 02.09.24 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks 1. Akhil Varma, MPI-PKS 2. Maria-José Franco-Oñate, MPI-PKS | 1. Self-buckling in autophoretic filaments 2. What mouse embryos can tell us about friction in spreading tissues |
| Mo, 09.09.24 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks 1. Rakesh Das, MPI-PKS 2. Matt Bovyn, MPI-PKS | 1. Autocatalytic Co-condensation Repair Mechanism of DNA Double Strand Breaks 2. Spatial and dynamical views into regulation of membrane fusion |
| Wed, 11.09.24 14:00 - 15:00 SR4 | External Seminar Talk Sudip Mukherjee Barasat Government College | Defect versus defect: stationary states of single file marching in periodic landscapes with road blocks |
| Mo, 16.09.24 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks 1. Shuzo Kato, MPI-PKS 2. Vincenzo Schimmenti, MPI-PKS | 1. Energetic costs and constraints in mitotic spindle organization: insights from experiments 2. Measuring folds in the Drosophila wing disc |
| Wed, 18.09.24 14:00 - 15:00 SR4 | External Seminar Talk Debasish Chaudhuri Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India | How do activity and inertia influence non-equilibrium features of active Brownian particles? |
| Mo, 23.09.24 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Journal Scan | Screening of recently published articles |
| Wed, 25.09.24 14:00 - 15:00 SR4 | Extra Seminar Talk Mirko Residori MPI-PKS | Flow through porous media |
| Mo, 30.09.24 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks 1. Ashot Matevosyan, MPI-PKS 2. Ian Seim, MPI-CBG | 1. Active Fluctuations: The Spectrum of the Noise 2. Hidden components and inference of noisy cortical condensate dynamics |
| Mo, 07.10.24 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks 1. Daniel Busiello, MPI-PKS 2. Omar Adame Arana, MPI-PKS | 1. A minimal model for Carnot efficiency at maximum power 2. Thermodynamic control of P granule positioning |
| Mo, 14.10.24 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | No Group Seminar | 2024 MPI-PKS Institute Retreat |
| Mo, 21.10.24 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Journal Scan | Screening of recently published articles |
Wed, 23.10.24 | External Seminar Talk Mengmeng Wu Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz | Drying Dynamics and Pattern Formation of Droplets |
| Mo, 28.10.24 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks 1. Arthur Genthon, MPI-PKS 2. Jonas Neipel, MPI-CBG | 1. From noisy cell size control to population growth 2. Deciphering the mechanics of avian left-right symmetry breaking |
| Mo, 04.11.24 11:00 - 12:00 SR1D1 | Internal Seminar Talks 1. Efe Ilker, MPI-PKS 2. Alexandre Guillet, MPI-PKS | 1. Control and reversibility in lattice model of branching morphogenesis 2. Harmonic entropy: a shortcut to the maths behind musical scales |
| Wed, 06.11.24 14:00 - 15:00 SR4 | External Seminar Talk Antoine Deblais University of Amsterdam | From Entangled Polymer-like Worms to Soft Robotic Chains |
| Mo, 11.11.24 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks 1. Malcolm Hillebrand, MPI-PKS 2. Pallabi Das, MPI-PKS | 1. A Discontinuous Transition to Active Nematic Turbulence 2. Interplay of Swimming, Flows and Confinement in Porous Media |
| Wed, 13.11.24 14:00 - 15:00 SR1+2 | Extra Seminar Talk Gianluca Teza MPI-PKS | Nonequilibrium shortcuts and anomalous thermal relaxations: the Mpemba effect |
| Mo, 18.11.24 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Journal Scan | Screening of recently published articles |
| Mo, 25.11.24 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks | Internal Group Seminar Schedule |
| Wed, 27.11.24 14:00 - 15:00 SR4 | Extra Seminar Talk Dongliang Zhang MPI-PKS | Title t. b. a. |
| Mo, 02.12.24 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks | Internal Group Seminar Schedule |
| Wed, 04.12.24 14:00 - 15:00 SR4 | External Seminar Talk Anupam Sengupta University of Luxembourg | Title t. b. a. |
| Mo, 09.12.24 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks | Internal Group Seminar Schedule |
| Wed, 11.12.24 14:00 - 15:00 SR4 | External Seminar Talk Michael Hinczewski Case Western Reserve University | Title t. b. a. |
| Mo, 16.12.24 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Journal Scan | Screening of recently published articles |
| Wed, 18.12.24 14:00 - 15:00 SR4 | External Seminar Talk Julia Eckert University of Queensland | Title t. b. a. |
| Mo, 06.01.25 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks | Internal Group Seminar Schedule |
| Mo, 13.01.25 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Journal Scan | Screening of recently published articles |
| Mo, 20.01.25 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks | Internal Group Seminar Schedule |
| Mo, 27.01.25 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks | Internal Group Seminar Schedule |
| Wed, 29.01.25 14:00 - 15:00 SR4 | External Seminar Talk Türkü Özlüm Celik MPI-CBG/CSBD | Title t. b. a. |
| Mo, 03.02.25 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks | Internal Group Seminar Schedule |
| Mo, 10.02.25 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Journal Scan | Screening of recently published articles |
| Mo, 17.02.25 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks | Internal Group Seminar Schedule |
| Mo, 24.02.25 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks | Internal Group Seminar Schedule |
| Wed, 26.02.25 14:00 - 15:00 SR4 | External Seminar Talk Jean-François Rupprecht Université Aix-Marseille | Title t. b. a. |
| Mo, 03.03.25 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks | Internal Group Seminar Schedule |
| Mo, 10.03.25 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Journal Scan | Screening of recently published articles |
| Mo, 17.03.25 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | No Group Seminar | 2025 DPG Spring Meeting, Regensburg |
| Mo, 24.03.25 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks | Internal Group Seminar Schedule |
| Mo, 31.03.25 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks | Internal Group Seminar Schedule |
| Mo, 07.04.25 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Journal Scan | Screening of recently published articles |
| Mo, 14.04.25 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks | Internal Group Seminar Schedule |
| Wed, 16.04.25 14:00 - 15:00 SR4 | External Seminar Talk Steffen Grosser IBEC Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Barcelona | Title t. b. a. |
| Mo, 21.04.25 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Easter Monday | Public Holiday |
| Mo, 28.04.25 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks | Internal Group Seminar Schedule |
| Wed, 30.04.25 14:00 - 15:00 SR4 | External Seminar Talk Sarah Loos University of Cambridge | Title t. b. a |
| Mo, 05.05.25 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Journal Scan | Screening of recently published articles |
| Mo, 12.05.25 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks | Internal Group Seminar Schedule |
| Mo, 19.05.25 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks | Internal Group Seminar Schedule |
| Mo, 26.05.25 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks | Internal Group Seminar Schedule |
| Wed, 28.04.25 14:00 - 15:00 SR4 | External Seminar Talk David Brückner Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) | Title t. b. a |
| Mo, 02.06.25 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Journal Scan | Screening of recently published articles |
| Mo, 09.06.25 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Whit Monday | Public Holiday |
| Mo, 16.06.25 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks | Internal Group Seminar Schedule |
| Mo, 23.06.25 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks | Internal Group Seminar Schedule |
| Mo, 30.06.25 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Journal Scan | Screening of recently published articles |
| Mo, 07.07.25 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks | Internal Group Seminar Schedule |
| Mo, 14.07.25 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks | Internal Group Seminar Schedule |
| Mo, 21.07.25 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks | Internal Group Seminar Schedule |
| 28.07.25 - 22.08.25 | SUMMER BREAK | |
| Mo, 25.08.25 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Journal Scan | Screening of recently published articles |
| Mo, 01.09.25 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks | Internal Group Seminar Schedule |
| Mo, 08.09.25 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks | Internal Group Seminar Schedule |
| Mo, 15.09.25 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks | Internal Group Seminar Schedule |
| Mo, 22.09.25 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Journal Scan | Screening of recently published articles |
| Mo, 29.09.25 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks | Internal Group Seminar Schedule |
| Mo, 06.10.25 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks | Internal Group Seminar Schedule |
| Mo, 13.10.25 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks | Internal Group Seminar Schedule |
| Mo, 20.10.25 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Journal Scan | Screening of recently published articles |
| Mo, 27.10.25 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks | Internal Group Seminar Schedule |
| Mo, 03.11.25 11:00 - 12:00 SR1D1 | Internal Seminar Talks | Internal Group Seminar Schedule |
| Mo, 10.11.25 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks | Internal Group Seminar Schedule |
| Mo, 17.11.25 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Journal Scan | Screening of recently published articles |
| Mo, 24.11.25 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks | Internal Group Seminar Schedule |
| Mo, 01.12.25 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks | Internal Group Seminar Schedule |
| Mo, 08.12.25 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Internal Seminar Talks | Internal Group Seminar Schedule |
| Mo, 15.12.25 11:00 - 12:00 SR4 | Journal Scan | Screening of recently published articles |